Poetry. Julia Drescher's OPEN EPIC is both examination and complex. In the context of this cosmology, Drescher's pre-origin meditations interrupt creation per se and its attendant orders, 'Descending errata' as another name for the great chain of being. In the very divide which opens language, every 'behalve' compels 'behave' in order to 'belong.' OPEN EPIC cannot wriggle free of the horns of this dilemma but it can, and does, wriggle, like a bell, shaking, shaken.--Tyrone Williams